CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/17/2024

Good news for open minds

It would be very hard to convey just how excited we are to announce Inventory Press’s new, first-ever English translation / facsimile edition of Bruno Munari’s beloved 1977 treatise on creativity, Fantasy. “A study on fantasy will seem to many an impossible task,” Munari writes. “For some, fantasy is caprice, oddity, extravagance. For others it is fiction, that which is false, an illusion, an imagining, a superstition. For some peasants a fantasia is a folk dance; for others a hallucination, a fixation, a whim. It can be understood as a reverie, a phantasmagoria, an inspiration, or a form of transport. For the military, it is an occasional exercise to be performed when the usual rigorous rulebook isn’t in force. Fantasy is also irregularity, aimless tinkering. And if that weren’t already enough, isn’t invention also fantasy? And isn’t fantasy also invention?” Featured photograph is from the chapter on stimuli for creativity. Other illustrations represent Surrealist artworks, a ship in a bottle, an exceptional bonsai tree and the imprint of an oak leaf, to name just a few.